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Transcript of the segment
What BBN said on air. The facts are in the original report: Wikipedia.
Brock ThundersonThe hottest place on Earth this Wednesday is Timbuktu, Mali, at forty degrees Celsius, clear skies. Not one cloud. It's doing it on purpose.
Hank LedgerA hundred and four Fahrenheit. Is that the part you're upset about?
Brock ThundersonThe sky had one job, Hank.
Brock ThundersonColdest is Norilsk, Russia, minus nine overnight, and it didn't even have the decency to be properly cloudy about it.
Hank LedgerPartly cloudy, per MET Norway.
Brock ThundersonPartly!
Brock ThundersonAnd the windiest city is Honolulu, forty-four kilometres an hour, which is a strong breeze for a place where nobody in the entire state owns a hat that stays on.
Hank LedgerYou own eleven.
Brock ThundersonAnd not one of them has ever been to Honolulu. They hear about it from the others in the closet.
Hank LedgerAll right. What's it like here in New York?
Brock ThundersonA high of sixteen, a low of eight, wind at twenty-one, clear skies. It's perfect.
Brock ThundersonNothing is happening to me, and I take that personally.
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